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Melt-in-the-mouth cornstarch cookies sandwiched with dulce de leche and rolled in coconut.
⏱ 60 min📶 Medium👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Cornstarch, 150 g
- All-purpose flour, 100 g
- Butter, soft, 100 g
- Sugar, 70 g
- Egg yolks, 2
- Baking powder, 1 tsp
- Dulce de leche, 1 cup
- Desiccated coconut, for rolling
Steps
- Cream butter and sugar, beat in the yolks, then mix in cornstarch, flour and baking powder to a soft dough; chill 20 minutes.
- Roll 5 mm thick and cut small rounds.
- Bake at 170°C for 10–12 minutes — they should stay pale. Cool completely.
- Sandwich pairs with dulce de leche and roll the edges in coconut.
Cook it together: One of you cuts and bakes, the other fills and rolls the edges — a very satisfying assembly line.
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